Shallow Quotes - Page 20

• Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

  Oscar Wilde

  Greatness, Sorrow, Plenitude

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.173, Xist Publishing

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• The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Disappointment, Littles, Reason Why

  "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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• All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Profound, Mind, Phrases

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• While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decreasing cogency of public debate, computers dismiss linear argument and promote fast, shallow romps across the information landscape. While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student's arithmetic or correct his spelling.

  David Gelernter

  Skills, Worry, Video

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• Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality.

  Robyn

  Mean, Commercial Music, People

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. February 25, 2008.

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• Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

  Henry Miller

  Cheer, Hero, Gone

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• The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

  Sai Baba

  Children, Educational, Mind

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• There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.

  Seth

  Differences, Impact, Long

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• There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

  Will McDonough

  Enough, Results, Journalist

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• My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

  Sting

  Philosophy, Party, Existence

  Sting (2009). “Lyrics”, p.47, Dial Press

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• I test the movies a lot, and if the audience says they love the movie, we know we're on the right track. And if they tell me they hate it, I try to figure out what I've done wrong. But every time out, the audience wants me to go deeper, they want to know more about the characters, and they don't want these movies to be shallow. So they really urge me to tell them a complicated story, and then when I do so, they're thrilled

  Judd Apatow

  Hate, Character, Track

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, film.avclub.com. July 30, 2009.

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• The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Character, Personality, Problem

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• Are men shallow? Should we be looking for inner beauty? Ha, ha.

  Tom Leykis

  Men, Inner Beauty, Should

  "Not too old to sue Tom Leykis" by Robert W. Welkos, articles.latimes.com. July 6, 2005.

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• Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being that has achieved cross-level coherence within herself, and between herself and the people, challenges, and institutions around her. Happiness comes from between.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Challenges, Feelings

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• It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current President....Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-liners, as though nobody understands what a colossal failure he has been....I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.

  Jack Cafferty

  President, Depth, One Liner

  "Current Wisdom", spectator.org. August 19, 2008.

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• Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the landscape surrounding the lake, so manageable. The leaves and the sand are so close, it's as if you might, if you wanted, pull them on over your head. And the lake always laps at the shore so gently, licking the hand you dip into it like a young dog, and the water is soft and shallow.

  Jenny Erpenbeck

  Dog, Rain, Home

  Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.34, Granta Books

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• Nothing is nicer than diving with your eyes open. Diving down as far as the shimmering legs of your mother and father who have just come back from swimming and now are wading to shore through the shallow water. Nothing more fun than to tickle them and to hear, muffled by the water, how they shriek because they know it will make their child happy.

  Jenny Erpenbeck

  Mother, Children, Fun

  Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.62, Granta Books

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• The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

  Matthew Henry

  Running, Sabbath, Neglected

  Matthew Henry (1850*). “The Miscellaneous Writings of the Revd. Matthew Henry: Consisting of Sermons, Tracts and Biographical Sketches of Eminent Christians and Ministers. To which is Added the Sermon Preached on the Author's Death”, p.199

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• Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Trying, Ends, Very Deep

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• Deep down I'm a very shallow person.

  Charles Haughey

  Shallow Person, Persons, Deep Down

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• After listening to modern tirades against the great creeds of the Church, one receives a shock when one turns to the Westminster Confession... and discovers that in doing so one has turned from shallow modern phrases to a "dead orthodoxy" that is pulsating with life in every word. In such orthodoxy there is life enough to set the whole world aglow with Christian love.

  John Gresham Machen

  Christian, Listening, Church

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Men, Individual

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.101, Routledge

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• I think if you look at the friends, the kinds of relationships I have, I am not the kind of guy who has many shallow relationships. I think you could say I am the kind of guy who has a few relationships, but those are very deep.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Thinking, Guy, Looks

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• If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

  Howard Rheingold

  Media, People, Swim

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• Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.

  Timothy Keller

  Inspiration, Despair, Together

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.94, Penguin

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